Experten aus dem Hinterzimmer

Originaltitel: The Small Back Room

1949
Approved
1 Std. 46 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,1/10

3388

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Kathleen Byron, David Farrar, and Jack Hawkins in Experten aus dem Hinterzimmer (1949)

Trailer for the 4K restoration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's THE SMALL BACK ROOM. rialtopictures.com

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Drama Romance Thriller War

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAs the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Regie
- Michael Powell
- Emeric Pressburger
Drehbuch
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,1/10

3388

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- Michael Powell
- Emeric Pressburger
Drehbuch
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Nominiert für 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

Wissenswertes
When Sammy and Susan are at the Hickory Tree nightclub, Susan spots Gillian, an old acquaintance, and asks Sammy to start talking, to avoid the meeting. Sammy starts, and then Susan joins in reciting the following lines: "I never nurs'd a dear gazelle / To glad me with its soft black eye / But when it came to know me well / And love me, it was sure to die." These lines are from the poem "Lalla Rookh" (in the section entitled "The Fire Worshipers") by the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852).

Patzer
Most of the music played at the Hickory Tree is of a style of jazz called bebop. Bebop was just starting to evolve in the U.S. in the early forties, so it's unlikely that a British band would be playing it in 1943, the setting of this movie.

Zitate
Susan: Wouldn't it be silly to break up something we both like doing, only because you think I don't like it.
Sammy Rice: Yes, you've got it all worked out in the way women always have. They don't worry about anything except being alive or dead.

Crazy Credits
"It has been suggested that I should point out that the characters and incidents in this story are purely fictional. This I gladly do. They are." - N.B. N.B. is Nigel Balchin, the author of the original novel.

Verbindungen
Featured in The Late Show: Michael Powell (1992)

Soundtracks
If You Were the Only Girl in the World
(uncredited)
Music by Nat Ayer
Performed by Ted Heath's Kenny Baker Swing Group

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Dark and modern view of wartime UK

This is a wonderful movie, ahead of its time. The filming has the intense chiaroscuro of monochrome at its best, Kathleen Byron is astonishingly beautiful (even more so than in Black Narcissus), and the undertones are dark and very modern. Susan and Sam (the pain-ridden hero) have no idealised relationship; the film is uncompromising about Sam's alcoholism and, remarkably for its time, clear in its implication that Sue and Sam live together despite being unmarried. There are also many nice well-observed details, such as the scientist who embarrasses a visiting minister by knowing the answer to a sum faster than the calculator they are supposed to be demonstrating, the snoozing officer in the War Room, and the laid-back Strang who clearly is intensely attracted to Sam. I just keep watching this and finding more to see.